Labor and Employment Law as an autonomous subject has emerged only recently in the Spanish university. It is sixty
years young, though it has been the object of attention by lawyers, economist, sociologists and politician for a long time. Its incubation perioLabor and Employment Law as an autonomous subject has emerged only recently in the Spanish university. It is sixty
years young, though it has been the object of attention by lawyers, economist, sociologists and politician for a long time. Its incubation period was lengthy and controversial; a rich ancontroversial scholarship, regarding de legal and social realities that promoted its educational and scientific birth, evolved long before the creation of the first tenured position in this area of the law. This article offers a brief analysis of this phenomenon, and its provide original insigths about the people hired to feel these tenured positions and the disciplines themselves.A special focus in on the chair Eugenio Pérez Botija occupied in 1947 at the University's Social and Politics Sciences Departament.[+][-]